Craft Moment : Paper Rose

Good afternoon..! Before we get to the totalAWESOME, I have to share some rather disappointing news, folks… 🙁
As you know, I was all excited to be finishing my quilt last night, & I worked on it for hours but… I’m so disappointed…After much fighting with my machine, I just could not keep it from breaking the upper thread every time. After fixing the machine for the five-BILLIONTH time & then sewing the binding down, I found that –yet again– only one side had actually been sewn (due to the upper thread breaking AGAIN)….!! I gave up in a frustrated fit of tears & drowned my sorrows in a sea of Ramen. I also managed to ram my face in to the corner of our table last night when I went to pick up Tesla at one point…now it’s bruised & I have a headache. Guh…

With that sad news, let’s cheer ourselves up with a bit of crafting, eh?? I know, how about a lovely paper rose?! Usually, I make them out of crepe paper, but since I don’t have any handy, how about using a bit of junk mail? Fun & resourceful! Yay for up-cycling! 😀 😀 😀

Materials:

Paper

Scissors/Circle punch

tape

staple

paper clip

water in a bowl

1. Cut strips out of paper

2. Punch circles or cut circles to size you want

3. Place circle in to water

4. Only leave for a couple of seconds! Remove.

5. Again, only a couple of seconds, or it will get ruined.

6. Wrinkle/crush circles to give flexibility & petal shape.

7. Lay circles out to dry.

8. Take first circle & twist to create center of rose, holding in place with paper clip.

9. Manipulate petal edges to create bud.

10. Add another petal, folding & bending edges to create rose shape.

11. Continues adding petals…

12. Continue to shape petals…

13. Tape and/or staple to bottoms as necessary…

14. Until they are all…

15. Perfect.

16. Cut out a leaf shape, fold edges up (you can do the water thing here, too.)

17. With edges folded, pinch middle in to create leaf shape.

18. I twisted a page to create a stem & tucked the leaves in to the paper stem…

19. …and attached the leaves to the stem with tape.

Congratulations!
You should now have a finished rose made from junk mail! Beautiful!

Aaahh…! 😀 I feel so much better now. What do you guys think? If you make your own paper rose, comment & let me see them! <3

Thanks Sevi! 😀 It did turn out ot be a tension issue — also, after my first needle (the correct size) broke, I only had the wrong size left & couldn’t get to the store, so that’s also what led to the breakage. Glad it worked out eventually, though! 😉